Searching The Truth Will Set Us Free: The Path of Self-Awareness

Monday, August 12, 2024

The Path of Self-Awareness

By Steve Beckow

Posted on August 11, 2024

There’s so much we … OK, OK, I … don’t understand.

For instance, take awareness. Awareness transforms. It does so, first of all, in ways I don’t understand or even suspect. Put those aside for the moment with a simple acknowledgment.

Second of all, it transforms by allowing the unpleasant sensation or emotion to play out, unmolested, after which, it, having no independent energy source, disappears.

We look at that and call it “transformation.” It is in when one is distinguishing between “change” and “transformation.”

“Change” just moves the pieces around the board. It takes place at a superficial level of consciousness – unconscious awareness. Nothing in the end may really change. It just gets postponed.

“Transformation” sees the condition disappear – either at once as when the truth sets us free or over time. Anger, fear, jealousy – experience it through to completion and we’ve lessened its chances of reappearing.

We’re definitely now on the road to upset disappearance rather than upset creation. If we’re into loving kindness instead of orneriness, this is a basic and welcome shift.

And awareness of what? Of the only thing in creation we are responsible for and the very thing we’re charged with knowing: Our self, in its many guises and at whatever level it appears.

I so like what Jesus said about us and wanting others to change. It’s material to what we’re charged with being aware of:

“It is characteristic of lightworkers that they let themselves be carried away by this [spiritual] anger and that they go beyond their limits in this regard. They lose themselves in their desire to change and improve the world. This can be a passion to change things on the political or social level or it may emerge as a desire to help people on a personal level, as a profession or in your private life.

“The desire to help and change things often contains a form of spiritual anger although this may not be noticeable. After all you seem to simply ‘want the best’ for someone else or for society. But surely there is anger inside you when you feel inclined to force somebody – no matter how subtly – to change their behavior or their emotions. Often you do not notice that the time is not yet ripe for it.

“Each time when you feel an intense indignation or an enormous passion to change things or when you have feelings of powerlessness and anger towards things as they are, you are in the pitfall of spiritual anger. You want too much at once. You are heedless of reality as it is for you and are seized by an emotion, the emotion of anger. I ask you to be aware of this and to let it go, for this kind of inspiration that is charged with anger takes you away from your center. It will not offer you the true inspiration, the peace and quiet in your emotional body that help you embody your light on Earth.

“You achieve the state of truly embodying your light on Earth by being entirely centered in your own being, in a pure and calm state of mind. In this state you can feel that you are in the world but not of it. Being of the world means that you attach value to everything you observe with your senses: violence, war, illness, destruction. If you regard these with your physical senses only you can easily get angry. Therefore we ask you to take a step backwards and to feel inwardly what spiritual dynamics are taking place in the things that upset you.” (1)

Darnation! I wish I’d written that.

Beautifully and completely put. How clearly he sees the human condition.

As for the awareness path itself, which I’ve looked at elsewhere, (2) I’d say that self-awareness is the alternative to “changing” people.

Its only requirement is to remain aware of oneself. In my view, its principles are to love, which draws us towards God; to use our awareness of the self, in any guise and on any level, as our vehicle; and to look to the truth to progressively reveal our Destination to us and set us free.

Easy? Not necessarily, in a world of distractions. Absorbing and beneficial? Truly.

Footnotes

(1) Pamela Kribbe, “Jeshua: The Gatekeepers,” Aug. 9, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/08/09/jeshua-the-gatekeepers/.

(2) See: